Top Ten Books of 2014
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It’s been a while since I last joined in with the Top Ten Tuesday linkup, which is a bookish meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. So it’s more than time for me to share some of the books I’ve been reading. This week’s subject is a freebie, so even though it’s halfway through January already, I thought I’d recap my top ten reads from 2014. Here we go!
1. The Caller
Juliet Marillier
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This is the third and last book in the Shadowfell series, one of my favourite fantasy trilogies. It’s full of Irish style faeries, which is so cool, and is the conclusion of an epic quest to save both the magical and the mortal worlds from a tyrant. I was almost afraid to read this book in case the ending didn’t match up to expectations. But read it I did, and I was ever so glad. This is an epic ending to a great series.
2. Cinder + Scarlet
Marissa Meyer
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These books both deserve to be on my list because they are as awesome as each other. I am a huge fan of fairy tale retellings, and these are some of the best I’ve ever read. They have androids, cyborgs, spaceships, and are still recognisable as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood retellings. I don’t know how Marissa Meyer did it. These books also inspired me to start writing my own series of fairy tale retellings.
3. The Sons of Scarlatti
John McNally
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4. Bones of Faerie + Faerie Winter
Janni Lee Simner
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Again, two books that both need to be on this list. I knew nothing about these books when I borrowed them either (that seems to happen to me a lot). Turns out it was a post-apocalyptic fantasy book with snooty faeries and man eating plants. Trust me, you do not want to go out and pick the daisies in this world. And it has the sweetest lead male I’ve ever met. Another great discovery.
5. The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan
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This was one of my two most anticipated books released last year. It’s the last book in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series. I’d like to say I was nervous about seeing whether he was going to wrap the series up well in this book, but this is Rick Riordan we’re talking about. I’ve only read about twelve of his books without being disappointed so far. Obviously he wasn’t going to disappoint me now.
6. Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Maggie Stiefvater
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7. Fairytales for Wilde Girls
Allyse Near
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8. Solitare
Alice Osman
Alice Osman
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9. All Our Yesterdays
Cristin Terrill
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I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book when I started it. It looked a bit too romantic for my tastes (a very little romance will suffice for me), but I was really glad I stuck with it though. It has two different timelines for the same characters, which somehow managed not to be too confusing, and one of the funniest male romantic leads I think I’ve ever read about. Totally still sad about the ending though.
10. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
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Have you read any of these books? What was one of your favourite books from last year?
7 comments
Cinder and Scarlet are my loves, but Thorne doesn't get a spotlight until Cress and that is why I enjoy that one the most. I haven't read the others, but they certainly sound awesome! :)
ReplyDeleteThorne is a pretty awesome character isn't he? I read Cress before the other two (courtesy of my library not having the other books), and it was great to get so much more of him. I was hanging out to see him appear in Scarlet then. Plus Cress is a pretty cool character too, isn't she?
DeleteThe Lunar Chronicles is my new favorite series!! I can't wait for Winter to be released this year. And I'm in the same boat with Blood of Olympus. The series ended exactly how I wanted it to!!
ReplyDeleteWinter is going to be so amazing, isn't it? Oh I love that series so much. Fairest should be interesting too. It's always fun to see how the villain turned into the person they were. (Or anything else about them at that.) Blood of Olympus is one of the best series ending I've read in a while. It was so cool how Rick Riordan managed everything so well. Go Greek and Roman heroes!
DeleteThe Lunar Chronicles is one of my favorite series, and the concept behind the series is so unique! I think out of all of them Scarlet was the most enjoyable, though. The suspense in that book was riveting.
ReplyDeleteScarlet was such a cool book. I liked having more character added, didn't you? Made it that much more interesting. Plus I really liked Wolf. So cool!
DeleteAWK! So many of these I'm rather desperate for. x) I relaly really want to read All Our Yesterdays and Bones of Faerie but my library doesn't have either so they're kind of on the indefinite-to-read-pile for me. I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE A STIEFVATER FAN. *hi fives* And of course Cinder and Scarlet are aaamazing. I'm really excited for Fairest! It comes out in a few days!
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